Yesterday we celebrated the PhD defense of Diego, who presented his thesis on new approaches to quantum state tomography. His dedication and insight have inspired us all. His presence in the group will be greatly missed, and we wish him every success ahead.

Congratualtions to Alice on successfully defending her PhD thesis on quantum nonlinear integrated photonics. Her collaborative spirit and positive have enriched our group. We wish her an exciting journey ahead.

I’ll be visiting the group of Khabat Heshami at the NRC in Ottawa on March 5–6.
Looking forward to great discussions and exchanging ideas during the visit!

We report a new approach for the characterization of high-gain pulsed squeezed light from silicon nitride microresonators via time-resolved measurements, revealing key performance limits and optimization paths. Results soon in Phys. Rev. Appl., stay tuned!

I’m looking forward to the Quantum Italian Forum on February 5 in Milan, a workshop dedicated to quantum technologies and innovation. Happy to contribute to the discussion, sharing perspectives on research, industry collaboration, and future opportunities.

Happy to announce that our work on a silicon-integrated source of hyper-entangled photon pairs, exceeding 10⁹ pairs/s, is now available in npj Nanophotonics.

Grateful for an exciting 2025 filled with discoveries, collaborations, and growth. Wishing everyone a joyful, healthy, and fruitful 2026. It may it bring bold ideas, shared successes, and continued inspiration across our community worldwide together in science.

On Dec 17, I attended the Stati Generali Quantum with fellow NQSTI members to discuss the future of quantum technologies alongside colleagues from all Italy and representatives of the Italian government.

Thrilled to share results from our collaboration with Fabio Sciarrino’s group at Roma La Sapienza, demonstrating threshold quantum state tomography on photonic systems up to four qubits. Findings are now available in npj Quantum Information.

From Nov. 10 to Nov. 15 I will be visiting UofT and Xanadu. On Friday, Nov. 13 I will present work on a Maxwell’s demon at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control.Click here for details.

Visiting Krister Shalm at the University of Colorado Boulder, November 5–7, to present some recent results. Looking forward to discussing physics in this wonderful place, so rich in ideas and talented people!

We develop a general framework to model spontaneous emission in integrated photonics, enabling efficient and flexible design of tunable single-photon sources. The results are now published in Physical Review A.